Brent Easley

This article is about two executive orders President Obama signed to strengthen The United States government defensed against cyber-attacks and to protect the personal information the government keeps about the citizens of the country.  The article also include information about how a budget was passed to upgrade the country’s technology, one example was how one social security department system were still using COBOL.  The article also mentions that President Obama created two new entities, Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, made up of business technology, national security and law enforcement leaders and Federal Privacy Council, which will include chief privacy officers from 25 federal agencies.  These moves will be used to help the private and public sector deal with the increasing cyber security threats that companies and government deal with every day.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/09/obama-signs-two-executive-orders-cybersecurity/80037452/

I have strong interest in this story because, one you probably never heard of this happening with an employee from a sport franchise, and two, I am a baseball fan.  This article is about an employee of the St. Louis Cardinals hacking the internal network of the Houston Astros.  Chris Correa, who was a former scout for the St Louis Cardinals was sentenced to almost four years for hacking into the Houston Astros player database. Correa was able to hack the internal network of the Houston Astros and gain access to statistics, and projections that were gathered by the front office of the Astros. Corrrea was able to do this by getting the old password from a former employee who is now the general manager for the Houston Astros.  The federal government estimated that this information was worth 1.7 million dollars.  In my opinion, cases like this is why companies enforce complex passwords, changing passwords often, and telling clients not to give their password out to anyone.

https://consumerist.com/2016/07/19/former-st-louis-cardinals-exec-sentenced-to-46-months-for-hacking-houston-astros/